Silent Buzz for 'Artist' Team

October 17, 2011

For the last few months, film-festival goers have been buzzing about Jean Dujardin's performance as a silent-film actor in "The Artist," an exuberant black- and-white feature directed by the French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius. But Mr. Dujardin's co-star, Berenice Bejo, is equally terrific as an actress making her way in Hollywood when "talkies" are introduced.

The whole cast was in the city on Friday to introduce the movie at the New York Film Festival where it received a standing ovation at Alice...